For commands that do not have an argument, there is no need to append a trailing space at the end of the line. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx> --- sequencer.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/sequencer.c b/sequencer.c index 5632415ea2d..970842e3fcc 100644 --- a/sequencer.c +++ b/sequencer.c @@ -2584,7 +2584,10 @@ int transform_todos(unsigned flags) strbuf_addf(&buf, " %s", oid); } /* add all the rest */ - strbuf_addf(&buf, " %.*s\n", item->arg_len, item->arg); + if (!item->arg_len) + strbuf_addch(&buf, '\n'); + else + strbuf_addf(&buf, " %.*s\n", item->arg_len, item->arg); } i = write_message(buf.buf, buf.len, todo_file, 0); -- 2.15.1.windows.2